Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 36 > Chapter 5 > Article 9 - Hospitalization in a Federal Facility

• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Court: means the superior court in the county in this state in which the patient resides or was found before screening or emergency admission under this title. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Director: means the director of the administration. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Evaluation: means :

  (a) A professional multidisciplinary analysis that may include firsthand observations or remote observations by interactive audiovisual media and that is based on data describing the person's identity, biography and medical, psychological and social conditions carried out by a group of persons consisting of at least the following:

  (i) Two licensed physicians who are qualified psychiatrists, if possible, or at least experienced in psychiatric matters, who shall examine and report their findings independently. See Arizona Laws 36-501

• Grave disability: means a condition evidenced by behavior in which a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is likely to come to serious physical harm or serious illness because the person is unable to provide for the person's own basic physical needs. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Informed consent: means a voluntary decision following presentation of all facts necessary to form the basis of an intelligent consent by the patient or guardian with no minimizing of known dangers of any procedures. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Mental disorder: means a substantial disorder of the person's emotional processes, thought, cognition or memory. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Mental health treatment agency: means any of the following:

  (a) The state hospital. See Arizona Laws 36-501

• Patient: means any person who is undergoing examination, evaluation or behavioral or mental health treatment under this chapter. See Arizona Laws 36-501
• Persistent or acute disability: means a severe mental disorder that meets all the following criteria:

  (a) Significantly impairs judgment, reason, behavior or capacity to recognize reality. See Arizona Laws 36-501

• Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215